"Letâ€™s not only take great photos, but letâ€™s make great photos with our lives."

-- Matthew Knisely

“The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.”
“The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and if they publish it, maybe no one will read it. That is the hard truth, that is what it means to be a writer.”
“You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it”
“Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.”
“To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.”
“I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.”
“The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition”

Source : W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne (2015). “Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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